<HTML>In a message dated 9/22/02 1:50:32 PM Central Daylight Time, jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am one who did it the wrong way. I started with the ETD too early, and never was able to pass the aural part of the exam. I turn 65 this year, and have been tuning since 1975. I have made a good living at it, and had no complaints from my customers. I have an ongoing contract with a University. I know I will never have the incentive to try the aural exam again. </BLOCKQUOTE> While I recognize the level achieved with the ETD has been satisfactory, I feel this is tragic, to not be able nor even to desire to learn to tune aurally.  I know that if I could spend time with you, I could teach you to tune those 23 notes within a tolerance which would pass the Exam.  It is merely a matter of perception and control of beats. What is even more tragic, is that you would not want me to teach you.  Recently you mentioned trying an HT but didn't know one from the other.  While it has been well established that the use of correction figures will produce acceptable results, the non understanding of what is being done would never be acceptable to me.  There is too much possibility of error in programming for this kind of method to be reliable without the aural skills to know whether or not a big mistake has been made and how to correct it. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>